A former CBRE executive in Atlanta is suing his former employer over age discrimination and allegations that the commercial real estate brokerage giant billed his time to multiple clients while working exclusively with one firm.
Christopher Gadrix sued CBRE, claiming that the firm terminated his role as a director of transaction management after he expressed “good-faith concerns” that he was assigned to too many third-party clients while his main client, energy technology firm Baker Hughes, was fully reimbursing Gadrix’s salary and benefits to work on its behalf, according to the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on Sept. 4.
Gadrix also alleges that CBRE “made false and damaging statements” about him to the Georgia Department of Labor and prospective commercial real estate employers, which “severely damaged” Gadrix’s “professional reputation and ability to obtain comparable employment,” according to his attorneys in the lawsuit, Wimberly Lawson Steckel Schneider & Stine PC Senior Principal Larry Stine and principal Elizabeth Dorminey.
Gadrix filed an age discrimination and retaliation claim with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which issued a right-to-sue ruling in June, according to the lawsuit. He also filed a whistleblower complaint under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, alleging that concerns he raised about CBRE’s client billing on his behalf “...
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